so I ended up reinstalling the spacewalk-oracle package and re-running the setup again. now when I start things up the osad still fails
[root@spacewalk1p /var/log/rhn]$/usr/sbin/spacewalk-service start Starting spacewalk services... Initializing jabberd processes ... Starting router: [ OK ] Starting sm: [ OK ] Starting c2s: [ OK ] Starting s2s: [ OK ] Starting tomcat6: [ OK ] Waiting for tomcat to be ready ... Starting httpd: [ OK ] Starting osa-dispatcher: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/sbin/osa-dispatcher", line 27, in <module> mod = __import__("osad." + mod_name) File "/usr/share/rhn/osad/osa_dispatcher.py", line 24, in <module> from spacewalk.common.rhnConfig import initCFG, CFG File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/spacewalk/common/rhnConfig.py", line 538, in <module> PRODUCT_NAME = ALL_CFG.PRODUCT_NAME File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/spacewalk/common/rhnConfig.py", line 232, in __getattr__ raise AttributeError(key) AttributeError: PRODUCT_NAME [FAILED] Starting rhn-search... Starting cobbler daemon: [ OK ] Starting RHN Taskomatic... Done. but now in the logs, I see [root@spacewalk1p /var/log/rhn]$cat rhn_taskomatic_daemon.log STATUS | wrapper | 2017/01/26 09:16:50 | --> Wrapper Started as Daemon STATUS | wrapper | 2017/01/26 09:16:50 | Launching a JVM... INFO | jvm 1 | 2017/01/26 09:16:50 | Wrapper (Version 3.2.3) http://wrapper.tanukisoftware.org INFO | jvm 1 | 2017/01/26 09:16:50 | Copyright 1999-2006 Tanuki Software, Inc. All Rights Reserved. INFO | jvm 1 | 2017/01/26 09:16:50 | FATAL | jvm 1 | 2017/01/26 09:16:50 | null java.lang.NullPointerException at java.util.Hashtable.put(Hashtable.java:514) at java.util.Properties.setProperty(Properties.java:161) at com.redhat.rhn.taskomatic.core.SchedulerKernel.<init>(SchedulerKernel.java:72) at com.redhat.rhn.taskomatic.core.TaskomaticDaemon.onStartup(TaskomaticDaemon.java:82) at com.redhat.rhn.taskomatic.core.BaseDaemon.startupWithOptions(BaseDaemon.java:188) at com.redhat.rhn.taskomatic.core.BaseDaemon.start(BaseDaemon.java:55) at org.tanukisoftware.wrapper.WrapperManager$11.run(WrapperManager.java:2788) STATUS | wrapper | 2017/01/26 09:16:52 | <-- Wrapper Stopped any ideas? again, this is RHEL 6.8 and spacewalk 2.6 Jason _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-list mailing list Spacewalk-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list